..3D CE MR angiography was found to be a good and promising technique for detecting intracranial aneurysms with small necks and slow flow, vasculature with aneurysmal clips and tortuous vasculature with disturbed flow...

Yoshimoto SekineDepartment of Psychiatry and Neurology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, JapanNeuropsychopharmacology 27:453-61. 2002

..These findings suggest that protracted use of methamphetamine may cause metabolite alterations in the basal ganglia. Furthermore, residual psychiatric symptoms may be attributable to the metabolite alterations in the basal ganglia...

Kiyokazu TakebayashiDepartment of Psychiatry and Neurology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, JapanNeuropsychopharmacology 29:1019-26. 2004

..These findings suggest that long-term toluene use causes membrane disturbance in the basal ganglia, which is associated with residual psychiatric symptoms that persist even after long-term abstinence from toluene use...

..With the proper choice of contrast for the original images, ICA may be useful not only for extracting subtle or hidden changes but also for preprocessing transformation before clustering and segmenting the structure of the human brain...